For the start of the 2022 academic year, ESTACA is welcoming nearly 500 new first-year engineering students, thanks in particular to the opening of ESTACA Bordeaux, a campus specifically focused on aeronautics. But the school does not stop there and aims to open a new building in Laval by 2024. ESTACA aims to improve its campuses with a view to training responsible engineers ready to face the challenges of transport. of the world of tomorrow.
ESTACA: expansion of a campus and creation of a new establishment
In early October, ESTACA will begin work on a new building for its Laval campus. Nearly 750 students have been welcomed to the establishment for this start of the school year. Once the work is completed, the school will be able to receive 1,100 students by 2024.
After announcing the arrival of Philippe Guibert as training director at the end of May, the start of the new school year is now marked by the opening of the new ESTACA Bordeaux campus, an establishment specifically geared towards aeronautics. This opening is part of a broader project of diversification and development of training courses at the engineering school.
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The evolution of ESTACA training
With a view to improving its training offer and in order to remain in line with the evolution of tomorrow’s mobility, the start of the 2022 academic year is marked by three changes for engineering training:
- The naval sector: open to first-year students in 2021, now accessible to second-year students. The sector contains specificities such as the discovery of the naval ecosystem, architectures and performances, etc.
- The space sector: now offered over 3 years instead of two, it aims to respond to the evolution of the sector in the field of New Space.
- Social and environmental responsibility: contains workshops on the climate emergency as well as cross-disciplinary skills development on sustainable development and ethics.
« In this new school year, our objective is to continue to structure, strengthen and develop the school. ESTACA wishes to maintain its academic excellence by welcoming brilliant students. Our goal: their success. We therefore want to offer them a diversified range of training aimed at meeting the challenges of sustainable mobility and in different places. », explains Jean-Michel Durepaire, Director of ESTACA.
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ESTACA meetings
During the fall, the STAKE will participate in numerous meetings in order to present the projects of students or researchers on air quality, the reduction of materials, on-board systems or energy. They will be present at various shows such as the IAC show, the Innotrans show or the Paris Motor Show.
